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All, Today, we’re introducing our latest customer audio offering: “Your Personal Podcast,” a personalized, AI podcast experience only available in The Washington Post app. App users will be able to shape their own briefing, select their topics, set their lengths, pick their hosts and soon even ask questions using our Ask The Post AI technology. This is a conversational, digestible format completely personalized to the user's individual preferences – All based on our best-in-class Washington Post journalism. Here’s how it works: On our Washington Post app, subscribers and registered users will find access to “Your Personal Podcast” via their habit tile, and our “Listen” tab. Users can then personalize their podcast experience by choosing their preferred topics, selecting the AI hosts, and setting the duration. (Currently, our beta version limits the duration to a maximum of 8 minutes.) Once a user begins listening, they soon will be able to ask follow-up questions to explore topics in greater depth. In line with our mission and plan, “Your Personal Podcast” is the ultimate intersection across our critical initiatives of premium experiences, customer choice and AI platform and products. It also reinforces our audience segmentation work, which has revealed our target audience is excited to be offered new ways to access our journalism. More specifically, they are busy and on the go with a growing appetite for audio and video news. “Your Personal Podcast” is another way for us to meet these customer needs. The product is in beta, which means we will continue to improve it based on user feedback. A big thank you to the many teams who collaborated with us across the company to get us to this exciting stage. Listen to a podcast that listens to you and try this out today. Vineet and Bailey

The Washington Post is launching a personalized AI podcast, saying users will be able to "shape their own briefing, select their topics, set their lengths, pick their hosts and soon even ask questions using our Ask The Post AI technology."

Great to see The Midnight House on this fabulous list of the best Cork books of 2025. Thank you @marjbrennan.bsky.social @irishexaminer.bsky.social 📚✍️✨ www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/ar...

Will Arnett was on Conan and told a story about how Conan dealt with the death of his parents by accusing Jason Bateman of killing them. It’s so funny.

New Irish Music: November 2025 An early morning, an MBV gig, plus releases from Rory Sweeney, The Altered Hours, Olan Monk, Hilary Woods and more

"he’s surely one of the best songwriters to come out of Ireland in the past 10 years"

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Bob Vylan issue defamation proceedings against RTÉ over Glastonbury controversy Band courted controversy at the festival this summer when they led chants of ‘death, death to the IDF’

The punk-rap group Bob Vylan have issued defamation proceedings against RTÉ over its reporting of the duo’s performance at the Glastonbury music festival this summer.

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Submissions

Most publishers have a section on their website about what they're looking for re submissions. Tramp Press has a particularly good one, for example: tramppress.com/submissions/

Wrote about the two-hour CMAT extravaganza at the 3Arena

Free to read, no need to subscribe to anything if you don't want to

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Una Mullally: ‘We’re the only place that does it all’: Dublin cannot let another arts venue vanish Dublin city is used to this cycle: a cultural space is threatened and people immediately organise to save it. Now it’s the turn of The Complex

"All of this happens in a city with far less cultural infrastructure and fewer interesting social spaces than other European capitals." - @unamullally.bsky.social

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For the Monday morning crowd⤵️

The Utah Jazz are on pace to lose by 112 points

Cmat at the 3arena tonight. The greatest.

Cloudflare down again!?!?

New episode of my TPOE music podcast is out today featuring Maykay in a 45-minute chat about her debut solo album

Link in bio or just search for 'The Point of Everything' wherever you get your podcasts

It's ok it's ok - My Goodness Food is to take over the restaurant space, with the co-operative continuing to run the shop, bakery and bookshop as separate enterprises.

End of an era as Cork's iconic Quay Co-op restaurant to close after 44 years The establishment will be taken over by vegan enterprise My Goodness Food

Cork’s legendary Quay Co-Op vegetarian restaurant is shutting up shop for good after 44 years

New episode of my TPOE music podcast is out today featuring Maykay in a 45-minute chat about her debut solo album

Link in bio or just search for 'The Point of Everything' wherever you get your podcasts

Olivia Nuzzi’s Much-Hyped Book Was Always Going to Be Self-Serving. It’s So Much Worse Than That. God, everyone sucks so much in American Canto.

"Are blond white women OK?"

Wrote about listicle season - the most wonderful time of year

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Wrote about listicle season - the most wonderful time of year

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From back spasms and 'maranoia' to finding peace at the Valencia marathon John Coleman travelled to the beautiful Spanish city to take on the race.

Valencia Marathon on this weekend

Thought this a great read from last year

So glad we sponsored the "Get Around To It" pod with @laurenmurphyjourno.bsky.social and @sweetoblivion.bsky.social . Latest ep features Pluribus, Dublin Gothic at The Abbey, Joanne McNally and loads of other stuff. Please follow listen and share. It's really really good! linktr.ee/getaroundtoit

The Altered Hours on their third album, Fontaines DC, and 15 years of being a band An interview with Cathal Mac Gabhann: 'I don’t want to say it’s hard, because it’s a pleasure to play music with your friends and to have the opportunity to perform or put out a record'

Love this - on being a band

"it’s how you understand the world and how you relate to your friends and how you communicate"

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Podcast Corner: Louise McSharry discusses coming out as gay on her latest episode The former 2fm presenter explains how she had to tell her husband when she realised she was gay

Friday's episode of Catch Up with Louise McSharry an unbelievable listen. Shows the power of podcasting and the relationship built up with listeners. I have a couple friends who said they cried listening to it

Long interview with Cathal Mac Gabhann on the brilliant third album by his band the Altered Hours, his partner and co-frontperson Elaine Howley's solo stuff, community in music and lots more

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Surely that should be a red card for Raul Jiminez? Deliberate handball

Craig Casey!!

Podcast Corner: Louise McSharry discusses coming out as gay on her latest episode The former 2fm presenter explains how she had to tell her husband when she realised she was gay

Friday's episode of Catch Up with Louise McSharry an unbelievable listen. Shows the power of podcasting and the relationship built up with listeners. I have a couple friends who said they cried listening to it

Lara from Irish duo Adore on their former band Gif ending and how she felt disillusioned by music - "chewed up and spit out"

📍 Listen to the full chat on TPOE 377 - just search for 'The Point of Everything' wherever you get your podcasts - or click the link in bio

The greatest to ever do it

Would've preferred a Meg White cameo tbh